I haue not been desirous of their wealth, Nor much opprest them with great Subsidies, Nor forward of reuenge, though they much err'd.
Twas precious loyalty, that was thought fit To atone for want of honesty and wit; No wonder common sense was all cried down, And noise and nonsense swaggered through the town; Our author then opprest would have you know it.
In every turn of state, without meddling on either side, he has always been favourable and assisting to opprest merit.
Can woe unfeign'd incite heav'n to relieve A wretch opprestwith agonizing pain?
But yet these worthies forcèd were, opprest with weather againe, To runne their ship betweene two rockes, where she doth still remaine.
And so unto Virginia came, where these brave soldiers finde The English-men opprest with greife and discontent in minde.
Resolve me first one question: Did you not draw your sword this night before, To rescue one opprest with odds?
My sonne I leave unto the joyes of youth; Tis pittie that his minde should be opprest So soone with care of governments.
By such I have much suffred in my state, Opprest almost to utmost penury In my once better fortune; but so late I sawe not any such.
This alien sinks, opprest with woe, And have you nothing to bestow?
He never opprest any mans parts, nor ever put any man out of countenance.
Nay it fortun'd at one time, that a Woman opprest with insufferable Hunger, depriv'd her own Son of his Life to preserve her own.
How many hath he enslav'd and opprest with insufferable Anguish and unspeakable Calamities?
Opprest by Artaxerxes' jealous reign "We vainly pleaded here, and wept in vain.
There was a time When he would weep to hear of wickedness And wonder at the tale; when for the opprest He felt a brother's pity, to the oppressor A good man's honest anger.
For this he lends His powerful aid, and calls the opprest his friends.
The weary soul by care opprest May utter no complaints, But loaths the weight it cannot bear And weakens till it faints.
Tis said the soul with care opprest Grows patient 'neath the weight, And after years can bear it well E'en though the load be great.
Had not thy word been my delight When earthly joys were fled, My soul opprest with sorrow's weight Had sunk amongst the dead.
A soul opprest with sin's desert, My God will ne'er despise; A humble groan, a broken heart Is our best sacrifice.
Where nothing dwelt but beasts of prey, Or men as fierce and wild as they; He bids th' opprest and poor repair, And builds them towns and cities there.
What wonder was it then that suddenly A woman's feeble sense opprest should be?
Again their rugged rhind the champions wore, Girding the faithful falchion with the mail, And with unceasing hope of comfort fed Master and mariners opprest with dread.
CI The mid-day fervour made the shelter sweet To hardy herd as well as naked swain; So that Orlando, well beneath the heat Some deal might wince, opprestwith plate and chain.
Zerbino, who the cruel action scanned, Was deeply stirred, the rather that, opprest And livid with the blow the churl had sped, Medoro fell as he was wholly dead.
Gryphon and Aquilant, who saw with woe Themselves on earth at one encounter laid, Their drooping heads, opprest with shame, decline, Nor dare appear before King Norandine.
And there seems no power arising within the circle not reached by Christian influence to relieve the gloom, to elevate those who are opprest by these sore burdens.
He stands near you, ready to break off your fetters and strengthen you to fight the enemy who has so long opprest you.
Eftsoones he perced through his chaufed chest 375 With thrilling point of deadly yron brand, And launcht his Lordly hart: with death opprest He roar'd aloud, whiles life forsooke his stubborne brest.
IV Then gan triumphant Trompets sound on hie, That sent to heaven the ecchoed report Of their new joy, and happie victorie 30 Gainst him, that had them long opprest with tort, And fast imprisoned in sieged fort.
The new views of truth whose benignant dawn now broke over Europe cast a fertilizing beam on this favored clime, and the free burgher admitted with joy the light which opprest and miserable slaves shut out.
The old republics and the feudal system opprest individuals much more than did the state.
If not; hang downe your heads opprest with dew, And I will weepe and wither hence with you.
My eyes, which from each beautious sight Drew Spider-like blacke venome in: Close like the marigold at night Opprest with dew to bath my sin.
My minde thats trobled in my vexed soule, (Opprest with sorrow and with sad dismay,) Misgiues me this wilbe a heauy day.
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